Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-19
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Don't give your horses musty hay.
The best food for cattle in poor
condition is a warm bran mash.
Give the young chicks a chance
at the Insects in the orchard and gar
den.
Let the fundamental law of farm.
ing be recognized, that it does not pay
TO cultivate poor land.
Never mix wood ashes and ami
NAL manure of any kind together; tho
latter is made useless and yaluelcss by
using the former with it.
AN Ohio farmer recommends or.
chard grass for meadows likely to be
overfowed. because it will grow
through thicker coating of muck
than any grass he knows.
do all you can to encourage the
birds. They are your best friends
Protect them and their nests, and keep
watch on the family cats; which do
the birds much damage. Troy Times.
The digestive organs of swine are
easily disarranged under our artificial
system of breeding There is no farm
animal more cleanly in its food natur-
ally than the hog.
1t is possible that old hens may be
too fat to lay; not so with pullets. Feed
them abundantly. Even in the case of
old hens less laying goes on as a re-
suit Of under than overlooking. Gin
citnati Times.
Cows that kick or draw milk from
their udders should be sent to the
butcher Remedies to prevent such
vices are not only useless as permanent
cures. but also troublesome to apply.
English mutton is largely fattened
on turnips. and yet it maintains its
superiority. While not themselves
very nutritious. yet turnips promote
good digestion. on which rapid fatten-
ing and the good, juicy quality
of the meat largely depends. ST.
Louis Republican,
In order to show what n sheep
may attain in weight 1t may be men,
toned that two-year-old- grade Lin
coin wether was recently slaughtered
in England. Its live weight was asa
pounds; carcass, 3O4 pounds; loose
fat, "a pounds; skin, entrails, blood,
etc, 80 pounds; waste. 6 pounds.
If there is any thing on the farm
that is only less than infamous it is
sore shoulder on horse, says the Ohio
Farmer. IL is unnecessary-there is
no excuse for it. Not the thinnest-
skinned horse that ever lived need
have a sore shoulder If his master has
ordinary gumption and conscience.
Some people feed carp as they do
chickens. A writer in the Farm and
Fireside says that when he wishes to
see the fish or let neighbor see them
he gives them sheaf oats, When he
wishes merely to feed them he gives
them thrashed oats or shelled corn,
that porker will eat is food
for carp,
-One of the best and cheapest de,
vices for ploughing, to prevent bark
ing trees In orchards, Is short whiffle-
tree with tho hooks for the traces on
the hack. and so fixed that the traces
will have to be passed over the end.
Thus. when whiflietree rubs against
a tree, the latter is protected by the
eather There was once patent on
his device, but it has long since ex-
,ired. Indianapolis Journal.
"A good method of killing poultry,
IS it causes instant death without pain
" Disagreement, is to suspend the
birds by tying across the killing room,
! convenient distance from the floor.
md opening the fowls beak, and with
/ sharp-pointed and -bladed
Snife an incision at the back of the
'oof, which will divide the vertebr@
md cause instant death. Farm, Field
md Stockmdn.